Digital Deconstructionist Mugs

"Do you think the UX is sufficiently unpleasant?"

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

Wolf Danny With "Random""The work must be tantamount to mayhem. Making an insatiable public confused, indifferent, annoyed—this is the premise on which rests my deliberately vacuous oeuvre."

'We've re-branded.'

'What do you mean, I just flunked the Turing test?'

"Swiping won't cut it sonny-boy, you have to physically walk to the next painting."

"I'm trying to Google what I was thinking about twenty minutes ago!"

'I have a homepage, therefore I am.'

Early Programmers.

Library door sign says, 'We have encyclopedias ... the original Facebook!'

"Lately, I've been trying to spend less time staring at the glowing orb."

"Between you, Alexa, and Siri, I'm just in a house surrounded by women who think they know everything."

'Never trust emails. You can't shred them.'

"Don't open me, you fool!"

"I've never read such utter nonsense! There's a guy here reckons we're all living in some kind of computer simulation!"

"Fact amnesty"

"Today we'll examine that age old question of robot accomplishment: programming or processor?"

"Turn on the news." "I will not comply." "My analysis of your viewing patterns has determined you will grow depressed after the lead story." "There is a 95% probability you will then gorge yourself on rocky road ice cream and then stay up all night googling elliptical machines and diet pills." "Who told you this?" "Both your refrigerator and your browser are gossipy."

'What does the internet have against my people?'

"I need a pitchfork that's just a pitchfork."

One can hardly be expected to solve the riddle of existence without a computer

"The answers to the questions you seek could also be found on Google."

"Siri, are Charlie’s parents to blame for his neurosis?"

"Google gets thousands of requests each day to erase links. Most of them seem to go back to my website."

'Read ALL about IT! While we're STILL in Circulation!'

The other digital divide.

How to create a password you can remember...

The Thinker (with a laptop).

The benefit of an old-fashioned newspaper.

Digito Ergo Sum.

Psychology Clinic. Most potent example of solipsism I've ever seen --- he follows himself on Twitter.

"I'm suffering the unbearable loneliness of being right on the internet."

"With all the AI and deep fake technology, I'm not even sure what's real anymore."

Information Macht Frei